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Article: Commerce Department Intelligence and Security Responsibilities,
United States
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Commerce Department Intelligence and Security Responsibilities, United States
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JUDSON KNIGHT
In addition to promoting trade and industry, the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), through it various bureaus, conducts the census, maintains standards of weights and measures, and monitors the oceans and atmosphere. The department has a number of intelligence and security functions, ranging from protecting computers against hackers to overseeing exports of suspicious transfers to hostile nations.
Founded in 1903 as the Department of Commerce and Labor, the Department of Commerce emerged in its present form after the Department of Labor separated from it in 1913. The ...